... nobody's naked.
Talk about whatever you like.
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And I'll consider getting out and about, taking pictures with peripheries that demand a second look.
I really thought I'd just happened to capture a naked person standing on the street. That would be odd!
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Ah, but there's a man in shorts!
Can anyone tell me what code to use to get the text to appear in the white space alongside the photograph?
(I tried to look it up myself. I'm not just being lazy.)
The well dressed street walker deserves a second look.
I think you have to use the left, middle, or right positioning of the photo, and then if left or right, it puts the text alongside.
While the legacy media were blowing their circuit-breakers about toy Neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, the real modern Nazis carried out terrorist attacks in Barcelona and Finland. It is no longer news when Muslims attack civilians in Europe. It's business as usual.
"... nobody's naked."
That's disappointing, distracting people from their anger would be just the ticket.
I wonder if what I mentioned about photo position, is dependent on the Template being used?
The lady should be done as a public statue.
Tech Companies Begin Blacklisting Alt-Right Sites, Purging Them from the Internet.
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/273247/
This is really bad. My feeling is the end result will be the regulation of these type services as utilities.
Breitbart is being targeted...
Gab.ai was just banned in the Google Store, and Apple never approved it.
Can anyone recommend a book with a theme of tolerance and/or the importance of evidence in justice? My son (mid-20's) is going off the rails with this poliical hysteria and I want to give him a birthday gift that will remind him of first principles. He used to have such a strong sense of justice that at the age of 13 he wouldn't tell me which teacher was rumored to be sexually harassing girls in his grade because it was only "hearsay," but now he believes everything his friends and social media and MSM say about any situation.
Tell him to watch "A Man for All Seasons" and "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" to get an idea how the coercion of the crowd and public opinion can be misused and therefore dangerous.
While the legacy media were blowing their circuit-breakers about toy Neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, the real modern Nazis carried out terrorist attacks in Barcelona and Finland.
According to The Washington Post it wasn't Nazis, it was a Van
Another option is "How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life" by Gilovich.
Boston Mayor Mahtee Walsh: “The courts have made it abundantly clear, they have the right to gather no matter how repugnant their views are, but they don’t have the right to create unsafe conditions,”
For a minute I thought he was talking about the Top Chef Teamster Thugs
"I think you have to use the left, middle, or right positioning of the photo, and then if left or right, it puts the text alongside."
But what is the code?
Okay, I see what I did wrong. I had the right code -- align="left" -- but I didn't put it in the right place.
Not sure if I like how it looks.
Needs some space in between!
"But what is the code?"
I guess there is a code, but clicking on the picture and it shows some GUI options in blue, and my being lazy, I just use the GUI...
Who knew Huma Abedin had a sense of humor?
"Not sure if I like how it looks. Needs some space in between!"
Hmm, that is kind of packed isn't it. I don't have a blog right now, but the newer templates seemed to do the right thing. The older templates were hard to use.
But the newer templates had a default font that was WAY small...
"Boston Mayor Mahtee Walsh: “The courts have made it abundantly clear, they have the right to gather no matter how repugnant their views are, but they don’t have the right to create unsafe conditions,”
What a surprise: another term to overload with whatever you want it to mean.
These dummies aren't dummies.
The thicc chick is standing in front of a store named "Stout's"? I've obviously died and gone to heaven.
The shorts... my eyes!
You need to add padding to the photo. Don't know how the Google blog software functions, or if that is a simple option. That will add space all around the photo, on all sides. Set in pixels.
Or you can do it in a table.
I really thought I'd just happened to capture a naked person standing on the street. That would be odd!
Well, it's apparently not odd in Times Square, where women walk around wearing nothing but a thin coat of body paint. Personally, I'm in favor of a law forbidding garment makers from making any women's clothing that is in a color approximating skin tones (including dark browns for black women's skin tones). This is because I'm a septuagenarian and my heart isn't what it used to be.
No, I'm not planning an excursion to Times Square.
@rehajm, so it was a self-driving van?
@Quayle- your movie ideas are kind of what I had in mind, but hoping for a book with that kind of theme because it is easier to send and more likely to be consumed.
No hose
"Nude" dress
Standing on the street
You do the math
It is no longer news when Muslims attack civilians in Europe. It's business as usual.
They can absorb a terrorist attack. It's become perfectly clear they can get run down, gunned down, or blown up only to stare blankly ahead like zombies and continue their daily lives.
If you were a terrorist watching, you'd eventually stop thinking of them as people at all.
But what is the code?
"Kenneth, what is the frequency?"
Quayle said...
"Boston Mayor Mahtee Walsh: “The courts have made it abundantly clear, they have the right to gather no matter how repugnant their views are, but they don’t have the right to create unsafe conditions,”
Maybe antifas will deface a few Boston monuments. After all if Joan of Arc is a fair target, what's to keep them from bravely attacking statues in Beantown?
The Boston Globe has kindly provided antifas with a Local guide to Bad Statues. Leif Erickson, Gen. Hooker, Columbus (oh, you just know Chris is gonna get it) Abe Lincoln freeing a slave who is in an insultingly subservient position.....,
https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2017/06/03/taken-for-granite/WQMnpuki6srD3G9SujB7ZP/story.html
Have at 'em, kiddies!
against a partial tan wall, under a tan canopy...the woman's a chameleon...:)
"Boston Mayor Mahtee Walsh: “The courts have made it abundantly clear, they have the right to gather no matter how repugnant their views are, but they don’t have the right to create unsafe conditions,”
Remember, this is the same city where the former mayor felt it necessary to issue a statement that Chick-fil-a wasn't welcome in his city because of its repugnant views.
It's also the city trying to come to terms with its nasty history of forced bussing leading to whites fleeing for the suburbs. I guess those school kids had repugnant views back then. When the Boston Celtics were insufficiently white, they had problems filling the Boston Garden. I guess the play of the championship teams back then was repugnant as well.
Perhaps it is the people determining whose views are sufficiently repugnant that their civil rights might not be protected who are creating "unsafe conditions" and should be removed.
"Can anyone recommend a book with a theme of tolerance and/or the importance of evidence in justice?"
I like books by Desmond Tutu, with his No Future without Forgiveness really interesting, as it's about the reconciliation process after Apartheid, with the commission offering amnesty in light of testimony, and giving victims and victimizers a chance to speak and the truth of what happened for decades to come to light.
Also really good is the Essential Writings of Martin Luther King jr. With the justification of violence and rage, King's voice is really helpful and getting to know King is also seen as a benefit. Having his broader writings helps see his work as a whole, in light of being attacked from different directions.
There's a lot of good books out there on these themes, but far too many are stuck in a predictable political stance. Finding an author with moral stature, healing vision, that will also be read is key.
Miroslav Volf's writing on memory and forgiveness are also quite good, though he's likely more interesting to those who are wanting a particularly Christian view. That MLK jr. and Tutu are themselves coming from very distinct Christian beliefs is true, of course, but they have a broader reputation.
Also just announced today -- John Henry, Boston Red Sox owner, is working to rename "Yawkey Way", the famous street adjacent to Fenway Park. It is named for the previous owner of the Red Sox who was responsible for a ten year delay (relative to other teams) of hiring black players to the roster... John Henry is "haunted" by that fact. What it would be renamed to is TBD.
Can anyone explain to me why Zoroastrianism is described as a monotheistic religion when it seems to involve two deities: the good force (a horrid Mazda) and the evil force (Maya Anjelou)?
For that matter, why is Christianinty described as a monotheistic religion. Seems more like three against one: a triumvirat (or troika?) on the good side and just one badass on the other?
Seems like a recipe for disaster. The Ahtenians at the siege of Syracuse, and the Ottomans at the siege of Malta ignored the"Unity of Command" principle. Did not work out well for them.
I have no way of judging this, as my own visits to Boston were brief, but I have heard from more than a few people who know the city better than I do that it is a very racist place.
"Seems more like three against one: a triumvirat (or troika?) on the good side and just one badass on the other?"
Nope. Three persons in one God. How exactly that works is a mystery beyond human understanding.
Abe Lincoln freeing a slave who is in an insultingly subservient position.....
From the back it looks like a blow job.
"For that matter, why is Christianity described as a monotheistic religion. Seems more like three against one: a triumvirat (or troika?) on the good side and just one badass on the other?"
Christianity begins its belief about God with the Jewish testimony, thus monotheism. The tricky bit comes in trying to reconcile the revelation of Jesus and the revelation of the Holy Spirit in light of the fact there is only one God. In wrestling with what they were shown and told, the early church tried to come to terms with how it worked out, leading to a lot of constructive insights and a lot of constructive insights that were later shown not to be coherent with the whole revelation. So, early church writers tried to find ways of talking about God that was consistent with the whole revelation as they understood it and in ways that would make sense to people in their time and place. In the late 2nd century, Tertullian first used the term trinitas to describe understanding God as one in substance while three in persons. A unity (oneness) that includes a diversity (threeness).
Basically, Christian theology has a conception of God that is actually beyond human conception and analogy. If you're going to have a God, it does make sense to have a God that transcends human understanding and discussion.
It's led to a lot of attempts to talk about God, though in varying degrees of success. The benefit is the more people talk about God in Christian theology, the more they continue to wrestle with the revelation in all varying forms.
So, Christianity set up a framework for talking about God that includes monotheism and three persons as God, and in that framework there's a fair amount of discussion that still can be considered orthodox. There's also positions that while thoughtful have been considered outside of the Christian framework.
More helpful than anything I've written is this fine discussion with Saint Patrick.
Also, Christianity doesn't believe in a cosmic dualism, with God and Satan facing off. God is God, and everything else is subservient (ultimately). Milton's Paradise Lost nicely exhibits this, with Satan ranked equally with the archangel Michael. When Jesus steps in, BLAMMO! The tricky bit in that is how to make sure people aren't all collateral damage in the blammo.
I bought a lottery ticket to go with my bag of chips and soda pop.
Three of the pseudo-random numbers are: 64, 65, 66
This seems more sequential than random.
I think it's $2 scam...
Three persons in one God. How exactly that works is a mystery beyond human understanding.
It could just be a bad translation.
It might be a tower of babel thing.
When do we get to talk about the "Russian-Collusion" Hoax again, and when is that dogged special prosecutor, Mueller, gonna indict Boris and Natasha?
Three of the pseudo-random numbers are: 64, 65, 66
This seems more sequential than random.
The human sense of random is very far off the mark. So far, in fact, that programs that want to appear random, say picking amusing subjects and predicates from a list, won't pick them at random but pick all the subjects in random order, and pick all the predicates in random order, and then print the two lists.
That way the same subject or predicate can't repeat nearby, as would very often happpen with random choices. And people would instantly say this thing is broken when it did.
"The human sense of random is very far off the mark."
A class on Decision Theory I took 25 years ago included an experiment on this subject. The instructor flipped coins, five of them, then had everybody in class write down the order of heads or tails. He then collected all the papers and, before reading the results, predicted that the majority would be Heads, Tails, Heads, Heads, Tails.
An assistant read off the answers and 75% were that sequence,
His explanation was that most people began a set of coin tosses with "heads", then "tails," then are faced with deciding what a random sequence would look like. They come up with "Heads, Heads, Tails." in the majority of examples.
That was a very interesting class.
Sydney,
If you could get him to read The Road to Wigan Pier, Homage to Catalonia, and Animal Farm (in that order) he'd be halfway to thinking critically.
Here's actually random
$ echo `for i in \`seq 0 9\`; do expr \`rand\` % 10; done`
6 7 6 6 5 9 6 1 9 0
Here's not random but looks random
$ echo `for i in \`seq 0 9\`; do echo $i; done | scramble`
5 2 9 1 0 4 8 7 3 6
Thank you, Paddy O. I just ordered Exclusion and Embrace by Volf.
Orwell may be the only man who ever understood liberty while approaching it from the Left.
Thanks for the recommendation, Cracker Emcee Activist. He has read Orwell, but must have forgotten the lessons.
@Etienne, there's a wonderful discussion of pseudorandom number generation in The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2, "Seminumerical Algorithms," by Donald Knuth.
Big Mike said......Donald Knuth.
Oh yes, the Bible in college. An interesting repository about making a PRNG into a CSPRNG (cryptographically secure), is: https://github.com/cckayne/ALEPH.
Stouts Shoes is where I got my feet scientifically fitted by a flouroscope when I was a little boy. Nothing like getting a dose of radiation along with your Buster Brown's. This is in downtown Indianapolis on Massachusetts Avenue. Used to be a hangout for winos but now it's filled with things white people like.
@Etienne, a four volume Bible? Knuth was three up on God himself! I collected one of his checks after finding a mistake in Volume 1 -- a section on the binary buddy memory allocation algorithm. He made an assertion for which I found a counterexample and sent it to him. I suspect that he counted on most of us technical types framing the check and mounting it in prominent place in our cube, but I was young and the wife was pregnant so I made a photocopy and cashed it.
Earnest Prole said...
The thicc chick is standing in front of a store named "Stout's"? I've obviously died and gone to heaven.
8/18/17, 2:14 PM
I gave you a chance despite your politics but if you're talking about the girl in pink, you're a moron. That's thick? By what standard?
... nobody's naked.
She does not need naked to be noticed.
Unknown said...
Stouts Shoes is where I got my feet scientifically fitted by a flouroscope when I was a little boy. Nothing like getting a dose of radiation along with your Buster Brown's.
Only one dose? We used to play with the damn things.
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